Found On

If things seemed weird back in February 1989, when we made this baby, the Weird were going shopping on bikes. In a farmhouse in the dead of winter, in personal circumstances too bizarre and complex to relate, we set about making our "commercial suicide" album. For the first time, I felt, we had made an album that really sounded like us. This record does have personality. One of my favourites, this.

So you've got a CD player, have you? I've got a headache and an abiding dislike of expensive food crews in dumb baseball hats. I've been in Edward's Closet and he wasnt't in. "That JBC", they mutter at the bus-stop, "turned left at the light a Long Time Ago".

mr perry, sir. you may be correct in your observations on songwriters. i would hardly know, i have met but a few score. i would, however, like to point out that, lazy though i may occasionally be, i feign nothing. what on earth would be the point of feigning stuff at my age, really?

and it does say "stray steg".
there was a time at the turn of the nineties where I would, at shows, pop in the word "estegosaurio" just afterwards for, as the lawyers would have it, the avoidance of doubt.

the highest density of wild leopards in india today is in urban mumbai. for him who cannot see the simple romance of a stegosaurus on the loose in this cramped and regulated world of ours i genuinely have no time.

I always thought it was 'spaced egg'. Which sort of adheres to the songs own internal coherence. I think the next line suggests spaced eggs as a fearsome road/bar food. Nice.
The later 'major tom' motif is foreshadowed also, where it is transformed from a symbol of alienation and loss of meaning into a celebration of multi-valent potential and polymorphic connectedness. An uninflected secular oceanic self. Nice?
ahem...So, even if it says 'stray steg' up above, i don't buy it. songwriters often disdain to correct such mistakes, or even take them on as special cargo (ex: ECostello singing 'washing the defectives" is all i can come up with now but theres loads)
Songwriters in addition are often very lazy. SOme also, would not want you to think that they're too self involved or precious about they're songs.They will pretend to tie their shoe and let the error pass rather than become a gatekeeper of these things.
and a feigned inscrutability is a very basic tool of social interface